VIDEO Debra White Plume 'Moccasins on the Ground' Pine Ridge fighting Keystone tarsands

Video Lakota Media Project: Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water

Sunday, March 9 – Day of Ceremony and Commitment to Protecting the Sacred Water from KXL
March 2013
Tarsands Blockade 

Photo credit: Andrew Ironshell

Update: Saturday, March 8 – Trainings on Direct Action, Action Medics, and Strategic Media
Lakota drummers opened the day in ceremony and performed traditional songs throughout the day. Song loosely translated as: ”Grandfather look down and watch over us as protectors of Mother Earth.” See more photos and follow live updates on twitter.
Here are some highlights:

• A young warrior spoke: “This will not be ‘game over’ because we will NOT allow this pipeline to go through Lakota territory.”
• “Our Red Nations have all opposed KXL pipeline and called upon all Lakota to defend our water. We can’t become complacent. We need to be ready and trained if KXL comes here.” - Debra White Plume
• Cindy, a Nebraska rancher brought a jug of her pure well water to share. ”Don’t let this be poisoned by KXL.”
• Participants had fun practicing “hassle lines” to get hands on experience in nonviolent deescalation tractics

Young warriors stand strong in front of giant “Honor the Treaties” banner

Kandi Mossett with Indigenous Environmental Network training on Strategic Direct Action
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Mohawk Nation News 'Boogie Men'

BOOGIE MEN

Posted on March 14, 2013

 
MNN. Mar. 14, 2013. Bankers and their accomplices have “Windigo Psychosis”. It’s an insatiable craving for everything in their sight. The Indigenous say Windigo becomes a wild-eyed, violent, flesh-eating maniac with super-human strength. They haunt Northern Alberta where they go on cannibalistic rampages. 

Native activists withdraw support from KXL Truthforce Concert Oklahoma

COALITION OF NATIVE ACTIVISTS WITHDRAW SUPPORT FROM KXL TRUTHFORCE CONCERT IN NORMAN

Casey Camp, Ponca

"Before long, we began to see a pattern that has played out repeatedly: Non-Indians armed with a savior complex, condescending tones and a penchant to show us a better way to do things, begin to plan strategy and events for us."

By Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, Marland, Okla.
Richard Ray Whitman, Pawnee-Euchee, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Glenda Sue Deer, Absentee Shawnee-Kickapoo, Shawnee, Okla.
Ben Carnes, Chahta/Choctaw Nation
JoKay Dowell, Quapaw-Cherokee-Eastern Shawnee-Peoria, Tahlequah, Okla. 
Dwain 'Buck' Camp, Ponca, Marland, Okla.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 

Censored News 

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Ben Carnes, Choctaw

We are a coalition of Native activists from all directions in Oklahoma. We have organized on crucial issues throughout the 1970s, 80s, 90s, even to this day. We were reared in Native traditional ways. We have traveled and worked locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. We do not hide behind shady names or elusive missions. We must be accountable to our community. We will be open and transparent. We will attach our names to this statement and to events we organize. We know it is the right way, among Native people when we travel outside our home communities to assist others, the people of that community take the lead on any strategies to address their issues.

The IDLE NO MORE movement began in Canada with four women, one a Non-Native. A call went out to Native communities in the U.S. to assist by holding instantaneous singing and round dancing in public places to call attention to serious human and environmental health concerns in Canada. It became our rallying cry, too, because we, in the U.S., suffer serious human and environmental health issues caused by abuse of our Mother Earth, our natural world and her resources, by exploitative industries.

Mohawk Nation News 'Helter Skelter'

HELTER SKELTER

Posted on March 13, 2013

MNN. Mar. 13, 2013. Talk overheard by our Warriors of the 4^th Dimension in the War Room on the 14^th floor of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. Several band council chiefs are sitting with the genocide strategists;
“How do we kill their spirit? What are they going to do to us for the genocide we committed that is already proven?”